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THIS HOUSE WOULD BAN MUSIC THAT GLORIFIES CRIME
Is this just about youth culture and the link to crime - or does it have wider issues. Are we looking just at lyrics that incite crime or should we ban Holst's Mars the god of war. How do we go about banning it?
this house would ban music that glorifies crime
Yes, because... ban music that glorifies crime because of the influence it has on children
A lot of young people don't even realize how much they are influenced by music. But sometimes it is singers that dictate what is cool.
It is insulting the intelligence of a child to incinuate that, because children are simply not that gullible. Music may glorify crime but it is ludicrous to suggest that it can make a child want to commit a crime.
Vote on this point: ban music that glorifies crime because of the influence it has on children
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this house would ban music that glorifies crime
No, because... It was the song that made me do it!
I agree that banning music would indeed be a gross infringement of peoples freedom of expression but to say that music has no influence on people behaviour and attitudes towards society i think is naive and underestimates the effect all media related messages have on the mind. I agree that music alone would not cause someone to commit a crime or offence against an individual or society, but as part of a wider problem of negative messages being sent to young people about how to live their life, and about what is acceptable and what is unacceptable, it has to take its fair share of the responsibility. To ban it would be improper and meaningless. What is required is a sea change in attitudes proliferated through all media. And not punitive top down measures, but measured responses from those in the business taking responsibility for the effects that their work has on society.
People don't just go out and do something because they heard it in a song. We aren't that easily influenced. It is for people to decide whether they want tto listen to a certain type of music. You can't just start banning them.
Vote on this point: It was the song that made me do it!
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this house would ban music that glorifies crime
No, because... Freedom of speech
it is part of human rights to have freedom of speech. You can't ban anyone from singing about what they want to.
Vote on this debate: this house would ban music that glorifies crime
Modified:
24 Jan 2009
Point 1. ban music that glorifies crime because of the influence it has on children
A lot of young people don't even realize how much they are influenced by music. But sometimes it is singers that dictate what is cool.
It is insulting the intelligence of a child to incinuate that, because children are simply not that gullible. Music may glorify crime but it is ludicrous to suggest that it can make a child want to commit a crime.
Point 1. It was the song that made me do it!
People don't just go out and do something because they heard it in a song. We aren't that easily influenced. It is for people to decide whether they want tto listen to a certain type of music. You can't just start banning them.
I agree that banning music would indeed be a gross infringement of peoples freedom of expression but to say that music has no influence on people behaviour and attitudes towards society i think is naive and underestimates the effect all media related messages have on the mind. I agree that music alone would not cause someone to commit a crime or offence against an individual or society, but as part of a wider problem of negative messages being sent to young people about how to live their life, and about what is acceptable and what is unacceptable, it has to take its fair share of the responsibility. To ban it would be improper and meaningless. What is required is a sea change in attitudes proliferated through all media. And not punitive top down measures, but measured responses from those in the business taking responsibility for the effects that their work has on society.
Point 2. Freedom of speech
it is part of human rights to have freedom of speech. You can't ban anyone from singing about what they want to.